New York is indeed an expensive place, but experts say that alone doesn't explain a recent report that found the city's annual cost per inmate was $167,731 last year _ nearly as much as it costs to pay for four years of tuition at an Ivy League university.

A surgeon in China says he has constructed an extra nose out of a man's rib cartilage and implanted it under the skin of his forehead to prepare for a transplant in probably the first operation of its kind.

When economic inequalities helped foment the
French Revolution, the legendary cry from on
high was, "Let them eat cake!" Now,
as modern France struggles economically, the
cry from below is, "Let us work!"

This past weekend the Pac-12 was in full conference play, with all the
ranked teams getting big wins. And while most of the games went
down without incident, it was USC that stole the headlines as head
coach Lane Kiffin was fired.

The Florence appellate court hearing U.S. student Amanda Knox's third trial in her roommate's murder agreed Monday to run additional DNA tests on the presumed weapon, but rejected more than a dozen other defense requests for new testimony or evidence.

Syria's foreign minister claimed Monday that his government is fighting a war against al-Qaida-linked militants who eat human hearts and dismember people while they are still alive, then send their limbs to family members.

Changes in our lives that we do not adapt to or fully mourn may negatively affect us by sapping energy and impairing the ability to connect to others. It's important to understand the normal stages of grief and how to effectively get through them.

Campers in national parks are to pull up stakes and leave, some veterans waiting to have disability benefits approved will have to cool their heels even longer, many routine food inspections will be suspended and panda-cams will go dark at the shuttered National Zoo.

Corn mazes, pumpkin patches and hayrides are fun ways for families
to enjoy the Halloween season together. Here are 31 places
throughout Utah — one for every day in October — where families can
find plenty of fall fun.

A rock slide killed five hikers and injured a sixth as it demolished a popular beginners trail below one of Colorado's most photographed mountains, causing so much destruction that rescuers had to wait a day to recover the victims' bodies.

For the first time in nearly two decades, the federal government staggered into a partial shutdown early Tuesday morning after congressional Republicans stubbornly demanded changes in the nation's health care law as the price for essential federal funding and President Barack Obama and Democrats adamantly refused.